Audra Mc Donald

Audra McDonald's talents are unmatched in its breadth and diversity in her roles as a performer, singer as well as an actor. She was the recipient of record-breaking 6 Tony Awards two Grammy Awards as well as an Emmy Award in 2015 she was ranked among the 100 most influential people in Time magazine. people. She also received the National Medal of Art, which is America's highest award for accomplishment in this field -- from the president Barack Obama. With a stunning soprano with an extraordinary talent for dramatic truth-telling She is equally as at ease on Broadway as well as on the stage as in her film and television roles. In addition to the stage roles, McDonald has earned a name for herself in a professional career that is a major concert and record-making career. She regularly performs at world-class places. McDonald was raised in Fresno California by her musical parents and studied classical singing at the Juilliard School, New York. In 1994, a year after she graduated from Juilliard School, McDonald won the Tony Award for "Best Performance of a Leading Actress musical" for her performance in Carousel. In the four following years, she was awarded two more Tony Awards as a featured actor in Terrence Mcnally's Broadway debuts Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). She has a total of Tony Awards is unprecedented at three prior to the age of 30. She received her fourth Tony for her performance in the role that she portrayed alongside Sean Diddy Combs in A Raisin in the Sun. Then in 2012, when she was a leading actor on stage in The Gershwins Porgy and Bess she earned her fifth Tony and won the first Tony Award in the best actor category. The Tony Awards most-decorated performer in 2014 was Billie Holiday, who she performed on stage in Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill. This is exactly the role she portrayed for her 2017 West End London debut for which she was considered for nomination to an Olivier Award. Along with setting the record for most awards won by actors in competition, she also became the first person to receive awards for all four categories of acting. Her theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993) Marie Christine (99) Henry IV (2007) 110 in the Shade (2008) Twelfth (2009), which was the Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park premiere, which was the first time she performed in Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical sensation in 1921 and All That Followed (2017) Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2018) as well as Ohio State Murders 2023. McDonald first appeared on television as a character actor in her role on the Peabody Award winner CBS series Having Our Say - The Delany Sisters' First 100 years. Her next role was that of a character actor on the NBC show Law & Order Special Victims Unit where she was a part of the cast with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber. McDonald's debut Emmy was for the HBO film version of the The Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. The film was directed by Mike Nichols with Emma Thompson as the main character, McDonald then returned to television networks in 2003. The show she starred in was Mister Sterling and produced by Emmy Award winner Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. The Bedford Diaries, a WB television show that premiered in 2006. She then had an recurring role on NBC's Kidnapped during the following year. McDonald received a nomination for a fourth Emmy in 2016 for her part in HBO's production called Lady Day, at Emerson's Bar and Grill. The Bite will be a 6-episode drama focusing on a deadly epidemic co-produced by Spectrum Originals, CBS Studios and Taylor Schilling in 2021. Having first appeared as U.S. attorney Liz Lawrence in the year 2009 on CBS's legal show The Good Wife in 2018 McDonald returned to the role (now called Liz Reddick) as a season regular of The Good Fight on Paramount+ getting three Critics Choice Award nominations for her role. The actress also appeared on Julian Fellowes historical drama The Gilded Age.